FT (Financial Times) Best Books of the Year 2022

1.
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death 3.73 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
2.
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives 3.68 avg rating — 56 ratings
2.
25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs
25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs 4.39 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It
The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
5.
Slouching Toward Utopia
Slouching Toward Utopia 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
6.
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval 3.84 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
7.
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America 4.09 avg rating — 10,304 ratings
8.
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions 4.40 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
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The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet
The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet 3.78 avg rating — 195 ratings
10.
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia 3.67 avg rating — 419 ratings
11.
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth 4.41 avg rating — 142 ratings
12.
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession 3.60 avg rating — 839 ratings
13.
Anna: The Biography
Anna: The Biography
by: Amy Odell
3.78 avg rating — 6,207 ratings
14.
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change 3.89 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
15.
Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink 3.91 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
16.
The History of the Computer
The History of the Computer 4.30 avg rating — 125 ratings
17.
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology 4.41 avg rating — 36,774 ratings
18.
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds 4.02 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone
Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone 3.66 avg rating — 103 ratings
20.
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World 3.58 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
21.
Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition 3.94 avg rating — 908 ratings
22.
Tourists
Tourists 3.61 avg rating — 201 ratings
23.
The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River
The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River 3.62 avg rating — 71 ratings
24.
High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China
High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China 4.32 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
25.
House Concert
House Concert 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
26.
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century 4.35 avg rating — 154 ratings
27.
Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
28.
Taste: My Life Through Food
Taste: My Life Through Food 4.20 avg rating — 90,817 ratings
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Cooking: Simply and well, for one or many
Cooking: Simply and well, for one or many really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings
30.
Motherland: A Jamaican Cookbook
Motherland: A Jamaican Cookbook 3.92 avg rating — 50 ratings
31.
Yell, Sam, If You Still Can
Yell, Sam, If You Still Can 3.48 avg rating — 239 ratings
32.
My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women 4.26 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
33.
Salt Crystals
Salt Crystals 3.40 avg rating — 231 ratings
34.
England Football: The Biography, 1872-2022
England Football: The Biography, 1872-2022 4.19 avg rating — 86 ratings
35.
Beryl: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete
Beryl: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete 4.52 avg rating — 242 ratings
36.
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World 4.02 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
37.
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life 3.86 avg rating — 527 ratings
38.
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World 4.15 avg rating — 3,457 ratings
39.
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm 4.55 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
40.
Good Pop, Bad Pop
Good Pop, Bad Pop 4.30 avg rating — 4,437 ratings
41.
Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success 4.43 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Queen High
Queen High 3.87 avg rating — 817 ratings
43.
A Traitor's Heart (Revol Rossel, #2)
A Traitor's Heart (Revol Rossel, #2)
by: Ben Creed
4.03 avg rating — 224 ratings
44.
Seventeen (Last Man Standing #1)
Seventeen (Last Man Standing #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,216 ratings
45.
Dogs of the Deadlands
Dogs of the Deadlands 4.11 avg rating — 313 ratings
46.
The Boy Lost in the Maze
The Boy Lost in the Maze 3.84 avg rating — 582 ratings
47.
War of the Wind
War of the Wind 4.05 avg rating — 145 ratings
48.
The Forward Book of Poetry 2023
The Forward Book of Poetry 2023
by: Various
3.58 avg rating — 104 ratings
49.
Manorism
Manorism
by: Yomi Sode
4.30 avg rating — 253 ratings
50.
The Illustrated Woman
The Illustrated Woman 3.91 avg rating — 137 ratings
51.
20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary
20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
52.
Monet Mitchell
Monet Mitchell 4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
53.
If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present
If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present 4.24 avg rating — 46 ratings
54.
Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome 3.80 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
55.
Illuminations: Stories
Illuminations: Stories 3.51 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
56.
Twilight's Last Screaming
Twilight's Last Screaming 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
57.
Brutalist Britain: Buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
Brutalist Britain: Buildings of the 1960s and 1970s 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
58.
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
59.
Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London (Oxford Historical Monographs) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24) 4.19 avg rating — 13,407 ratings
61.
The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3)
The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3) 4.25 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
62.
The Twyford Code
The Twyford Code 3.60 avg rating — 31,845 ratings
63.
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion 4.09 avg rating — 381 ratings
64.
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science 3.76 avg rating — 413 ratings
65.
Rule, Nostalgia
Rule, Nostalgia 3.96 avg rating — 369 ratings
66.
The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish
The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish 4.13 avg rating — 641 ratings
67.
Olive Jones and the Memory Thief
Olive Jones and the Memory Thief 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
68.
The Tale of Truthwater Lake
The Tale of Truthwater Lake 4.18 avg rating — 491 ratings
69.
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine 4.12 avg rating — 316 ratings
70.
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route 4.49 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
71.
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine 4.04 avg rating — 687 ratings
72.
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story 3.70 avg rating — 597 ratings
73.
How Charts Work: Understand and explain data with confidence
How Charts Work: Understand and explain data with confidence 4.66 avg rating — 47 ratings
74.
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
75.
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne 4.16 avg rating — 3,079 ratings
76.
Time Shelter
Time Shelter 3.75 avg rating — 25,224 ratings
77.
Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead 4.47 avg rating — 705,680 ratings
78.
Best of Friends
Best of Friends 3.44 avg rating — 9,279 ratings
79.
Briefly, A Delicious Life
Briefly, A Delicious Life 3.75 avg rating — 8,654 ratings
80.
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life 3.87 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
81.
If Science is to Save Us
If Science is to Save Us 3.60 avg rating — 68 ratings
82.
The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain
The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain 3.86 avg rating — 126 ratings